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free from eggs, &c., and nibbled at by animals or injured'. (4) .
A monk or a nun might wish to go to a sugarcane plantation. They should ask permission in the manner described above. The monk or the nun might wish to chew or suck sugar-cane. In that case the same rules as for eating mango apply also; likewise if they wish to chew or to suck the sugar-cane's pulp, fibres, sap, or smaller particles. (5)
A monk or a nun might wish to go to a garlic field. They should ask permission in the manner described above. The monk or the nun might wish to chew or suck garlic. In that case the same rules as for eating mangoes apply also ; likewise if they wish to chew or suck the bulb or peel or stalk or seed of garlic?. (6)
A monk or a nun, having got possession of a place in a traveller's hall, &c., should avoid all occasions to sin (proceeding from any preparations made by) the householders or their sons, and should occupy that place according to the following rules. (7)
Now this is the first rule :
He may beg for a domicile in a traveller's hall, &c., having reflected (on its fitness for a stay), &c. († 2 of the preceding Lesson is to be repeated here).
This is the first rule. (8) Now follows the second rule:
A monk resolves: 'I shall ask for possession of a dwelling-place, &c., for the sake of other mendicants,
* In the text $ 3 is repeated with the necessary alterations.
* Silanka, in his commentary, remarks that the meaning of the Sætras about eating mangoes, sugar-cane, and garlic should be learned from the Sixteenth Lesson of the Nishstha Sætra.
